Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relief to see the magnificent and inspiring art works of the Louvre after so much of the modern abstract trash. I wish you would reproduce more of man's great achievements that inspire rather than disgust...
...contemporary British artist views the Holy Family in modern dress, see Arthur Fretwell's Flight into Egypt, one of five pictures he painted for the Anglican church of St. Mary the Virgin in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England...
Calling for the adoption of a curriculum more cosmopolitan in scope than at present, Hunt urged that American schools expose their students to the numerous ideologies, particularly Marxism, which have assumed significance in the modern world...
Page after page Monocle employs the lead sock and mailed fist on modern civilization, its low-life and its literature. Gone is the gentle velvet touch or the cultivated wit; in its place--attended by the three old shrews of overstatement, needless elaboration, and editorial foot-note--is the effective finesse of the piledriver. Monocle Credits cleverly mention precisely what the author's parodying, to allay the confusion...
...there are lots of parodies. (Satire used to seek its own form.) There is a parody on Jack Kerouac--one of the few prose works written in the past two years worse than Kerouac's own. And an allegory for modern children. And a lamentation on income taxes in the form of a Wasteland lampoon (shattering and scattering the newly mended dissociation with a series of rhyming couplets...